3 ways to provide effective feedback

By Tom Stevens2023-02-23T07:15:00

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Use these principles to ensure your feedback is timely and helps your students succeed

Written marking is time-consuming, so much so that many secondary schools have moved to policies of zero written marking with an emphasis on verbal feedback instead. In 2021, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) published their much-anticipated guidance report: Teacher feedback to improve pupil learning. Rather than advocating for any particular method of feedback, the guidance set outs three principles that matter most. The report states that school feedback policies should seek to clarify one thing above all: principles of feedback. Read about these principles and how to apply them to your practice to become a better teacher and improve student results.

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